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Bulawayo to decommission 2 more dams as Gwayi-Shangani stalls
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has warned that Upper Ncema and Lower Ncema will likely be decommissioned in about six months, a development set to further worsen the city's already dire water situation....Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:33hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's worst water crisis in decade
BULAWAYO could face its worst water crisis in the past 10 years, with statistics at hand showing that its supply dams are in the red, a few weeks before the official ending of the rainy season in Zimb...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:47hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents to get water 'as and when it's available'
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has been forced to suspend its 120-hour water shedding schedule indefinitely as the water situation worsens leaving supply dependent on availability until their system ...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Zesa decommissions three thermal stations
Zimbabwe's power utility, Zesa Holdings, has begun the process of decommissioning three small thermal power plants due to their deteriorating conditions and rising operational costs.According ...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 07:35hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Diasporan intervenes in Mzilikazi water crisis
A UNITED KINGDOM-BASED Zimbabwean has come to the rescue of Mzilikazi residents after drilling boreholes to address the suburb's acute water shortages.Bulawayo residents are currently enduring...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 17:57hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Thermal Power Station decommissioning to hit jobs
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association ((BPRA) has warned of massive job losses in the country's second largest city as the power utility Zesa moves to decommission the Bulawayo thermal power ...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:20hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demanding their power station back
Some Bulawayo residents are demanding that the Bulawayo Thermal Power Station be handed back to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) instead of being decommissioned.This came out during an engageme...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:40hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
50% Harare boreholes unsafe
Half of the boreholes in Harare's western and northern districts are contaminated with human waste and could be potentially unsafe sources of drinking water.Water samples from boreholes in the...Published: 14 Jan 2024 at 20:20hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Maintaining graves is not Bulawayo City Council's job
THE Bulawayo City Council has urged residents with relatives buried at different cemeteries in the city to constantly check and maintain the graves as it is not the duty of the local authority to do t...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:36hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane Dam decommissioned
THE Bulawayo City Council has decommissioned Umzingwane Dam as its water levels are very low due to poor inflows during the last rainy season. The decommissioning process entails the closure o...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:50hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Graves cave in at Luveve Cemetery
AN elderly woman, accompanied by two young adults walks briskly into a section of Luveve Cemetery in Bulawayo, a little bit on the edge and sombre.They continuously scan across the hundreds of...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:56hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council moots 5 days water shedding schedule?
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is planning to introduce a new water-shedding schedule, which will see residents going for 120 hours without water with Government yesterday assuring residents that it ...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:28hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo supply dams at 44,43%
BULAWAYO supply dams are currently at 44,43% with the total volume of all dams at 184 208 617 cubic metres while the drawable volumes are at 167 623 509 cubic metres (m³), underlining the crisis the ...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 20:39hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
BCC pins hope on tropical cyclones
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC), which is struggling to supply water to residents due to depleted water levels at its major supply dams, is now pinning its hope on the predicted tropical cyclones likely t...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:18hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart engages AfDB to solve water crisis
Bulawayo mayor David Coltart has engaged the African Development Bank (AfDB) for funding to address the city's water challenges.Residents are going for days without water due to dwindling leve...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:34hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council partners Dutch company for Khami water recycling
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has partnered Dutch company, Vitens Evides International (VEI), in a waste water recycling project.The project was officially launched on Friday.BCC enginee...Published: 27 Jun 2023 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dams not silted, claims Zinwa
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has dismissed claims that Bulawayo's perennial water shortages were caused by silted supply dams.The city has been battling escalating water probl...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
House crumbles in Kwekwe
A Kwekwe family escaped death by a whisker after their flat at Globe and Phoenix compound caved in due to illegal mining underneath the compound.Family spokesperson, Ms Kimberly Rusike, said t...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fight over water turns fatal
Bulawayo's water challenges turned tragic with a 17-year-old boy from Nkulumane now facing murder charges for fatally stabbing his neighbour following a dispute at a borehole queue.The teenage...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Health time bomb at Sidojiwe flats
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says it is concerned about the ballooning population at Sidojiwe flats meant to accommodate 82 bachelors, but now houses more than 500 families.The town planning de...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis overwhelms BCC
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says a deadly mix of challenges such as system failures among others were crippling its capacity to quench the thirst of residents who are going for several days without wa...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water woes set to worsen
THE water situation in Bulawayo is set to worsen as two of the city's six supply dams are set to be decommissioned soon.Already, the city's residents spend most of their time fetching water fr...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Hwange power plant output falls to 10%
THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is at various stages of repairing four units at Hwange Power Station after a series of breakdowns led to a sharp drop in power supply, after output at the country's se...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Typhoid wreaking havoc in Harare
TYPHOID is wreaking havoc in the capital, Harare, with 19 new suspected cases having been recorded this week.This comes after 63 suspected cases were recently recorded in Glen Norah high-densi...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dam levels still critically low
BULAWAYO's major supply dams have received insignificant inflows of water since the onset of the rainy season, raising fears of more water woes in the city.According to the latest update by th...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
New water treatment plant for Bulawayo to draw supplies from Lake Gwayi-Shangani
GOVERNMENT is inviting tenders for the construction of a new water treatment plant in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb which is one of the key components of the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project meant ...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani 245km pipeline project paces up
GOVERNMENT has opened a tender process for the construction of a new water treatment plant in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb as it intensifies efforts to address the city's water supply shortages thro...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'40% Zimbabwean cars uninsured'
At least 40 percent of cars on Zimbabwe's roads do not have insurance cover, the Insurance Council of Zimbabwe (ICZ) has said.ICZ spokesperson Ringisai Batiya said this has affected victims of...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:39hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti blames government for power blackouts
CITIZENS Coalition for Change vice president Tendai Biti has said rolling power blackouts have a negative impact on the pillars of the economy and Government should consider investing in renewable ene...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Liberation museum sitting on goldfield'
SATELLITE images dating back to 1985 show that the famed US$40 million Museum of African Liberation project is being constructed on a goldfield, the Zimbabwe Independent reported.According to ...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets US$310m for Hwange power upgrades
Zimbabwe has secured US$310 million from the Export-Import Bank of India to rehabilitate six units at the Hwange Power Station in a bid to restore its capacity to 920 megawatts, Energy and Power Devel...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Schools order pupils to bring own water
SOME schools in Bulawayo have resorted to asking pupils to bring their own bottles of water to school to curb the spread of waterborne diseases following the prevailing water crisis in the city....Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dam levels critically low
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has said water levels at its supply dams that are 52 percent full as well as a drastic drop in supplies from Epping Forest due to vandalism of infrastructure have worsened ...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Water cuts a threat to Bulawayo fire services'
COUNCILLORS in Bulawayo fear that the ongoing water-rationing programme being implemented by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) could serious affect firefighting services and lead to loss of properties i...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo faces 72 hours of water shedding
BULAWAYO residents could soon be faced with a 72-hour water shedding regime as the water situation in the city continues to deteriorate, with vandalism of both electricity instalments and pipes on ser...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls to be decommissioned: UNESCO
The United Nations has warned that plans by the governments of Zimbabwe and Zambia for the development of a golf course, lodges and a hydroelectric dam near the Victoria Falls will put the renown...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 21:32hrs | 19 | by Shelton Muchena
Sally Mugabe renal unit disappears
THE renal unit at Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH) named after the late former President Robert Mugabe's late first wife Sally collapsed and disappeared years ago, NewsDay has established.Th...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:58hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
BCC councillors push for more boreholes
BULAWAYO city councillors are considering using devolution funds to drill more boreholes to address the city's perennial water crisis.In 2019, the city suffered one of its worst water crises, ...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ in US$3,5m rolling stock revamp
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has embarked on a programme to refurbish its rolling stock at a cost of US$3,5 million, in a move expected to improve efficiencies.The project, which in...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo considers re-introducing water-shedding
BULAWAYO could be forced to re-introduce a stringent water shedding schedule as one of its major supply dams faces decommissioning due to low inflows.The city has over the past years been forc...Published: 24 Apr 2022 at 06:37hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo water woes persist despite rains
Blessing Moyo, a resident of Bulawayo's Gwabalanda suburb, is a worried man as he relives the 2020 diarrhoea outbreak that hit Luveve and other surrounding suburbs.The diarrhoea outbreak, blam...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:14hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zupco, NRZ in huge debt
AUDITOR-GENERAL Mildred Chiri has questioned the going concern status of four parastatals whose current liabilities exceed current assets and have been incurring losses running into millions of dollar...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
3 dams to serve Bulawayo until 2026
Chairperson of Bulawayo City Council's future water supplies committee Sikhululekile Moyo has revealed that the city's three supply dams had the capacity to meet demand for water until 2026.Th...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC introduces 48-hour water shedding
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has introduced a 48-hour water shedding programme that is affecting many suburbs as it undertakes repairs at Ncema Water Treatment Works.The water shedding programm...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Council to decommission Umzingwane Dam
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has said it will decommission Umzingwane Dam tomorrow due to low inflows into the reservoir.Another dam, Upper Ncema is expected to be decommissioned in July....Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane Dam faces decommissioning
BULAWAYO faces crippling water shortages after the local authority warned that Umzingwane Dam might be decommissioned this month due to dwindling water levels.The country has been experiencing...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Water shortages loom in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents face another round of water shortages despite the recent rains as city fathers have proposed a three-day water shedding regime because one of the supply dams faces decommissio...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 19:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Mutare Highway urgently needs widening
MUTARE Highway passes through the dormitory town of Ruwa. When the highway was designed, it was meant to also serve Ruwa, Mabvuku-Tafara, Msasa, Greendale, Hillside and Eastlea.Ruwa has since ...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:53hrs | 11 | by Rejoice Ngwenya Ruwa resident
BCC decommissions Athlone cemetery
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has decommissioned Athlone cemetery after it ran out of burial space.Town clerk Christopher Dube confirmed the development in a notice to residents yesterday, addin...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
BCC to decommission Umzingwane Dam
BULAWAYO City Council is set to decommission one of its major water supply dams, Umzingwane, due to reduced water level, which has dropped to 6,7%.Council engineer Sikhumbuzo Ncube revealed th...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:22hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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